N. Arts District Tour to benefit Art Share L.A., Sponsored by Angel City Brewery

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N. Arts District Tour to benefit Art Share L.A., Sponsored by Angel City Brewery

Cartwheel Art Tour founder Cindy Schwarzstein, will enthusiastically guide participants, while offering her “insider” knowledge through, the art and history of what was once a gritty section filled with disused warehouses, train tracks and manufacturing plants by the L.A. River, to what is now rapidly becoming the hippest and most vibrant and dynamic art-centric part…

Odd Nerdrum: “Pupils of Apelles” and the Crime of Art

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Odd Nerdrum: “Pupils of Apelles” and the Crime of Art

Artist Odd Nerdrum is controversial and influential, and his show at Copro Gallery opening Saturday November 15 featuring new works, may be his last in a very long time. The Swedish-born, Norwegian-based painter, who draws on classical imagery and has a worldwide following, was  convicted of tax evasion in Norway. During his  two year and…

LA Art Show 2014: Los Angeles Murals Reclaim Their Place

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LA Art Show 2014: Los Angeles Murals Reclaim Their Place

Saturday at the LA Art Show, Isabel Rojas-Williams presented “Will Los Angeles Reclaim Its Title as the Mural Capital of the World?” CARTWHEEL is presented a special guided tour of the Los Angeles Downtown Arts District murals for LA Art Show guests which tied into the exhibition. Rojas-Williams also curated “Paris Women & Bicycles” a photo exhibit by former Los Angeles District attorney Gil Garcetti, the father of our current mayor, Eric Garcetti and lead discussions on both exhibitions as part of the LA Art Show’s Dialog series.

Meme Democracy at illuminoidal arts: Don’t Worry, They’re From the Internets.

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Meme Democracy at illuminoidal arts: Don’t Worry, They’re From the Internets.

“Goes Grey… Alzheimers” by James P. Scott featuring Paranoid Parrot The new pop art exhibition, Meme Democracy,  currently hangs at illuminoidal Arts in Long Beach, and will be up for 3rd Thursdays Long Beach Art Walk,  December 19, 2014, from 6pm to 10pm. Exhibiting artists were given the task of creating new memes using classic…

Interview: Art Publicists Draw Attention to Clients

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Interview: Art Publicists Draw Attention to Clients

The Miami Art Fairs and the the upcoming Los Angeles Art Show  make it clear that there are a lot of artists, emerging and established, vying for wall space be it in your museums or your home.  In Los Angeles, there are gallery shows opening every weekend, and thousands of artists hoping to hang their…

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This: Eye Candy at WWA Gallery

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Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This: Eye Candy at WWA Gallery

  It’s a can’t lose proposition really. “Eye Candy,” that’s the title of the latest group exhibition at WWA Gallery. It’s a wide open theme, leaving an infinite panorama of options for the eleven artists featured to throw themselves into. Some of the artists, like Gabe Larson and Aaron Jasinski, clearly reveled in the opportunity to stray…

Art Is Voyeurism: A Report from Santa Monica Airport Artwalk

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Art Is Voyeurism: A Report from Santa Monica Airport Artwalk

There are artists far more fearless and tolerant than I. This was made harshly apparent to me on Saturday at the 7th annual Santa Monica Airport Artwalk. It’s one thing to share close studio quarters with other (potentially more talented) artists in converted airplane hangars. I imagine that can breed fruitful inspiration, and healthy competition,…

Sleepwalking Along the Dotted Line: JoKa at C.A.V.E. Gallery

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Sleepwalking Along the Dotted Line: JoKa at C.A.V.E. Gallery

  JoKa is definitely up to something. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that he has nefarious intent, but he’s certainly lurking in our dreamworld, observing our lust and our fears, ready to pounce on the first chimera he finds. Well, I’ve been observing JoKa too. He’s an artist that seized my attention…

Wayne White, “Master Retrospective 2000-2009” at Western Project

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Wayne White, “Master Retrospective 2000-2009” at Western Project

Wayne White’s art isn’t highbrow. It isn’t Low Brow. But it qualifies as both. It’s also all-American in the best of ways: Pure, funny, shoot-from-the-hip, self-made, inventive, imaginative. Wayne White is Will Rogers or Mark Twain with a paintbrush and a hot glue gun, an artist whose mural work greeted attendees at the 2009  Art…

Corey Hagberg Joins CARTWHEEL Shop’s Six Featured Artists

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Corey Hagberg Joins CARTWHEEL Shop’s Six Featured Artists

CARTWHEEL is now representing Rockford, Illinois artist Corey Hagberg! Corey Hagberg’s CARTWHEEL representation is thanks to a Miami art fair encounter: While exploring Fountain Art Fair in December, CARTWHEEL founder Cindy Schwarzstein rounded one of the labyrinthine fair’s corners and immediately spotted the artist’s psycho-chromatic layered paintings. She was drawn to his use of machinery…

CARTWHEEL Interview With Kirk Pederson of ZERO+ Publishing

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CARTWHEEL Interview With Kirk Pederson of ZERO+ Publishing

Last year at photo l.a.–the longest running art fair west of New York City, which opens this year on January 17–CARTWHEEL founder Cindy Schwarzstein was turned onto fine arts/photography publisher ZERO+ Publishing through their book Everyday Heroes  and Villains, a collection of portraits by photographers Tatiana Wills and Roman Cho which surveys some of the most…